Working with LGBTQ+ activists, poets, dancers, and rappers, Black visual artist Rashaad Newsome embarks on a new immersive project. Through personal stories and tributes, odes to ballroom culture, live music, and Afro-futurist AI, Newsome transforms an NYC armory into a performance, art, and resistance sanctuary for the queer community.

Behind an unassuming "We Buy Gay Stuff" sign in San Francisco's Castro district — complete with a striking leather daddy illustration — lies an unexpected treasure trove of queer history.

Angelo Madsen’s sophomore feature dives into Fakir Musafar’s groundbreaking “Modern Primitives” movement. Fearless and unbiased, the film’s striking editing combines archival visuals and personal stories to reveal the complex life of this Bay Area artist and how his body modification practices reshaped queer identity and influenced alternative culture.

Filmed and set in Oakland, Budget Paradise follows Chester, a Black, nonbinary painter as they search for space and permission to exist within their hometown.

A study of a Black queer couple told through intimate voice recordings documented over the course of a season.

Celebrate queer stories from the Bay Area with the Homegrown program. This program features sci-fi, heists, gay stuff, elder stories, and more.

Presented in a new digital restoration, this groundbreaking, award-winning film “about who lesbian mothers and their children really are” portrays the diversity of experience, race and class among eight families and their challenges with custody, the children's fathers and the courts. Followed by Lesbian Custody.

In the summer of 2004, in Berkeley, California, queer teens Nina and Jay grapple with understanding Jay's uncharted transgender identity amidst the throes of first love.

A young bisexual hustler sells his body to whomever is willing to pay — and in his new home of San Francisco, it’s usually men. But when he finally finds himself in a happy relationship, will the baggage of his profession cause him to lose everything? Quite possibly the first gay feature film shot in SF, The Meatrack is a newly-restored landmark of early queer cinema.

The shocking life of a formerly fresh-faced Mouseketeer-turned-gay bondage pornographer is exposed in this UCLA student film — newly preserved in 4K — by future Blonde Death videomaker and novelist James Robert Baker.

In a San Francisco losing its soul to rapid gentrification, nonbinary newbie Cass barely scrapes by nannying for wealthy kids, waiting tables, and dealing just enough party drugs to cover rent on a small apartment. A one-night stand with coworker Kalli sparks something real, but when Kalli disappears — leaving her 11-year-old daughter, Ari, in Cass’ hands — the seams start to come undone.

Over ten years have passed since Bay Area icons/activists/artists/partners Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens made their first queer environmental documentary feature in 2014, and with the climate crisis worsening with each passing season, the artist/activist duo are sounding the alarm with the third chapter: a cinematic reckoning with the power of fire.

As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young Black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands.

Meet Babs, an optimistic octogenarian speed-racing through life, one five-year plan at a time.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the definitive literary portraits of queer San Francisco, Michelle Tea’s Valencia, Frameline49 is hosting a screening of its radical, community-made 2013 film adaptation, followed by a walking tour of old haunts and dyke destinations of The Mission with Tea serving as your guide.

Legendary Bboy Wicket, internationally renowned breakdancer, changed the game in the ‘90s. While the SF dancer seemed to have it all, the closeted gay man behind the persona, Gabriel Jaochico, struggled with the isolation of living a half-truth. This intimate documentary is the energizing story of the transformative power of art, and of living as your whole self.